Re: [SLE] 2.4.1 thus far.
There is an issue with modules and 2.3.somenumber and above. Make sure you got latest modutils installed. mk
From: Matthew <matthew@psychohorse.com> Reply-To: matthew@psychohorse.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 2.4.1 thus far. Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:20:38 -0800
Its not for newbie for sure....I tried to keep the kernel itself small by using modules, but my Ethernet card did not work. The module ends up in this place /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip.
The same happened with sound (emu10k1). The only way I got around this was by building it into the kernel, however it looks as though joystick support has gone out of the window, at least for now...Ethernet card worked only when built in too.
The easiest part was actually the Nvidia graphics card, all I had to do was re-make the driver from source.
Overall its probably best to wait for SuSE 7.1, unless you want to spend the time and take the risks. Although everything should have some sort of workaround.
Matt
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Got the latest from the SuSE website... Thanks for that gem of advice, I will look to see if there are any newer ones. I want to get my joystick working again, so I can play Terminus on my Linux partition :-). Matt On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:37:53 Purple Shirt wrote:
There is an issue with modules and 2.3.somenumber and above. Make sure you got latest modutils installed.
mk
From: Matthew <matthew@psychohorse.com> Reply-To: matthew@psychohorse.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 2.4.1 thus far. Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:20:38 -0800
Its not for newbie for sure....I tried to keep the kernel itself small by using modules, but my Ethernet card did not work. The module ends up in this place /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip.
The same happened with sound (emu10k1). The only way I got around this was by building it into the kernel, however it looks as though joystick support has gone out of the window, at least for now...Ethernet card worked only when built in too.
The easiest part was actually the Nvidia graphics card, all I had to do was re-make the driver from source.
Overall its probably best to wait for SuSE 7.1, unless you want to spend the time and take the risks. Although everything should have some sort of workaround.
Matt
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Thanks to PurpleShirt for helping out there with the modutils... Will the ones on the SuSE website be updated? The latest is 2.4.2.... They have changed a lot! I knew the whole substructure had been basically re-written in 2.4, but also a lot of the modules have now gone or renamed, and how do you pass parameters to something built into the kernel? Gonna have to work on that joystick problem all over again! emu10k1-joy does not seem to exist, it hates that snd-card-emu10k1 stuff. I am tired now and will start missing things and breaking more than fixing... Anybody finding this interesting? I am getting closer....Should not need to worry about all this with 7.1 (I will get it anyway, but I need the understanding, knowledge is a very useful thing and Linux really is an OS that benefits that much more from the user knowing as much as they can, unlike Windows (the more you know it the more you hate it hehe). Matt On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:54:09 Matthew Johnson wrote:
Got the latest from the SuSE website...
Thanks for that gem of advice, I will look to see if there are any newer ones.
I want to get my joystick working again, so I can play Terminus on my Linux partition :-).
Matt On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:37:53 Purple Shirt wrote:
There is an issue with modules and 2.3.somenumber and above. Make sure you
got latest modutils installed.
mk
From: Matthew <matthew@psychohorse.com> Reply-To: matthew@psychohorse.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 2.4.1 thus far. Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:20:38 -0800
Its not for newbie for sure....I tried to keep the kernel itself small by using modules, but my Ethernet card did not work. The module ends up in this place /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip.
The same happened with sound (emu10k1). The only way I got around this was
by building it into the kernel, however it looks as though joystick support has gone out of the window, at least for now...Ethernet card worked only when built in too.
The easiest part was actually the Nvidia graphics card, all I had to do was re-make the driver from source.
Overall its probably best to wait for SuSE 7.1, unless you want to spend the time and take the risks. Although everything should have some sort of workaround.
Matt
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Hi, On Wed, Jan 31 2001 at 01:09 -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote:
They have changed a lot! I knew the whole substructure had been basically re-written in 2.4, but also a lot of the modules have now gone or renamed, and how do you pass parameters to something built into the kernel?
You can pass options to the kernel when loading it with lilo/loadlin/grub/... Check out the SuSE manual, there's a chapter about kernel options and how to pass then, IIRC. In Grub you do it like this: title SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.4.1 kernel (hd1,0)/2.4.1/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdf6 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ kernel option Ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Troeger o _ _ _ stefan@troeger.st __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_
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